PC20 versus PD20: Why Change a Scientifically Well-Established and Clinically Relevant Test?

PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROSTOMY: A WELL ESTABLISHED AND EFFICACIOUS PROCEDURE

56 percutaneous nephrostomies were evaluated in 50 patients, with a malignant underlying factor in 32 and benign conditions in 24. The clinical indication was decompression for supravesical obstruction with or without azotemia in the majority of cases. Less common indications were management of ureteral fistula, ureteral stricture dilatation, and pelvic stone extraction. Serious complicati...

the effect of lexical and grammatical collocation instruction through input flooding versus awareness raising on short-term and delayed retention as well a active use

this study attempted to explore if teaching english collocations through two different modes of awareness-raising and input flooding has any possible differential effect on immediate retention as well as retention in a delayed assessment. it also compared the possible differential effect of teaching english collocations implicitly and explicitly on actively using the items in writing. m...

The 'continuum of psychosis': scientifically unproven and clinically impractical.

The limitations of current diagnostic categories are well recognised but their rationale, advantages and utility are often ignored. The scientific support for a 'continuum of psychosis' is limited, and the examination of whether categories, a continuum or more than one continua, and alternatives such as subtypes or hybrid models, best account for the distributions of symptoms in populations has...

Investigation of Bronchial Hyper-reactivity. Ecrhs Ii Test Questionnaire versus Histamine Pd20 Fev1

Stigler–Becker versus Myers–Briggs: why preference-based explanations are scientifically meaningful and empirically important

Economists typically object to preference-based explanations of human behavior; differences in preferences “explain everything and therefore nothing”. But this argument is only correct assuming that no empirical evidence exists to discipline preference-based explanations. In fact, over the past decade, personality psychologists have produced a robust collection of stylized facts about human pre...